A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London's Natural History Museum. Former University of Portsmouth paleontology student Jack L. Norton located the ...

The Natural History Museum in London has discovered a previously unknown species of coelacanth from fossil remains that date back about 150 years (Macropoma gombessae). The new coelacanth is important ...

Paleontologists have identified a new species of coelacanth from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum. This ancient fish, long thought to hold the missing piece of the ...

An image of the specimen Macropoma gombessae. Copyright of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London.

Fish have been around since the dawn of complex animals. They were the first vertebrates, had the first live births and were the first four-limbed animals to venture onto land. The fossil fish ...

THE discovery of a, living crossopterygian fish of the order Actinistia, described and illustrated on p. 455, is an event of outstanding importance. There can be no doubt that Dr. J. L. B. Smith, who ...

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum. Former University of Portsmouth palaeontology student Jack L. Norton located the ...